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FOURTEEN MEDFORT) (OREGON! MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. Dseemfee 29, 19S4 Employment Drops In Portland Area During November Salem (U.R5 Both em ployment ancj. weekly earnings declined slightly in the Portland-Vancouver area last month but changes were confined large ly to seasonal operations, the State Unemployment Compensa tion commission said today. : Estimates showed that food processing, lumbering and con struction accounted for most of the 4800 decrease in non-agri cultural jobs from October. Re ports from employers in the four-county district showed 239,- 000 working, compared with 243,800 the previous month and 243,000 in November, 1953. Ma chinery and ship repairing also were lower than a year ago. Changes Small Metals manufacturing, finance and governmental were the main classifications reporting gains over 953, but the chang es were small. Lost overtime work account ed for the decline in weekly earnings from $78,60 in Octob er to $77.75 last month, but the lastest figure was $1.80 higher than a year ago. Food proces sing employees were putting in an average of 38.3 hours a week, 2.2 less than in October. Lum ber and sawmill workers drop ped to 35.8 hours, compared with 37.9 the previous month. ' Printing and publishing em ployees : averaged 38 hours a week to earn an average of :$102.87, higher than in any pre- vious month. Scientists Working At Low Temperatures Schenectady, N. Y. (U.R) .Modern research scientists have tpushed their studies of tempera tures to within a fraction of one degree of absplute zero minus :459.70. . : But no matter how far down the average temperature goes, there's no existing thermometer ;good enough to satisfy the ,scien Itists working at low tempera tures, r ' ' : More than . 130 scientists in ;the United States, "Canada and .Europe met here recently at I General Electric Research Lab oratories and passed a recom jmendation requesting establish rnent of an accurate temperature scale extending below the boil ing point of oxygen. The scientists point out that temperature ranks . with mass, length and time as one of the most basic physical qualities. - Sears, Roebuck Prices Said Lowest Since 1950 Chicago (U.R) Prices in the Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1955 spring catalogue, out this week, are the lowest since 1950, the mail order firm has reported. Prices in the new book aver age about ZVi per cent below those in the 1954 spring cata logue, Sears said yesterday. All classes of consumer goods shared in the price declines, Sears said, with home appli ances, home furnishings and wearing apparel showing the largest reductions. Sheppard Spends 31st Birthday Confined in Jail Cleveland, O. (U.R) Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, who used to get presents from his patients, spent his 31st birthday in jail to day with nothing but a crossed off calendar date to mark it. Officially, not even his broth ers or his father could come to see him, since visiting hours are Friday only. Can Arrange Visit "But he might get a little break." chief jailer Michael Ucel lo said. "If his relatives come to see him, I think we might ar range it so they could get 15 minutes with him on his birthday." Mrs. Dorothy Sheppard, wife of Dr. Sam's eldest brother, Dr. Richard N., said the birthday' gut problem didn t even exist. "We won't be able to do any thing more than we have , been doing," she said. "We sent our Christmas and birthday gifts in together but they were practically nothing," she said. "He hasn't expressed a desire for anything." Parfenlal Visit Unlikely The likelihood that Dr. Sam's father, Dr. Richard A. Shep pard, or his mother would visit him pn his birthday was almost non-existent. His father is con fined in Bay View Hospital, of which he was one of the found ers, with a bad cold. His mother suffered a stroke several weeks ago during her youngest son's trial. The athletic osteopathic brain surgeon was convicted a week ago yesterday of second-degree murder in the slaying of his pregnant wife, Marily, 31, last July 4. He was granted a stay until his attorneys argue their pleas tomorrow for a new trial. 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Luther Clayton Baker, 57, formerly of Shelby, Mont., was charged with malicious destruction of per sonal property, and Fred Joseph Nettekoven, 48, a transient, was charged with larceny in a build ing. Bail on both charges was set at $2,500. The charge against Netteko- ven involved carrying away a gum machine, and against Baker the destruction of a gum ma chine and one candy machine on Dec. 26. Booked for Larceny In other matters, Medford city police arrested Joseph Gil ford Shadden, 53, general 1 de livery, Medford, last night and booked him on a larceny charge. Shadden admitted in a signed statement that he took a used vacuum fleaner from an apart ment house at 243 North Holly st., about Nov. 29, which he later sold for $2 at a local sec ond hand store. He was taken off . the northbound Southern Pacific passenger train by Grants Pass police after notifi cation by local authorities. A report to the sheriff's of fice yesterday said .that about 20 gallons of gasoline was taken frcm the property of R. B Fowler, route 1, box 414, the evening of Dec. 23. Beer Offense Charged Aaron Frances Gentry, 25, of 42V Third st., Ashland, was booked in the county jail last night on a charge of giving beer to minors. In municipal court today, Earl Shults Potts, 48Vi North Orange st., was fined $50 for operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, city police said His license was revoked in 1951 and had not been reinstated by the state, police said. Prescription Drugs Unknown20YearsAgo ' Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R) Ninety per cent of all present day prescriptions call for drugs unknown to most doctors 20 years ago, according to John Zugich, assistant director of the University of Michigan's hos pital, i ; ; Zugich,1 writing in an Ameri can Hospital Association publi cation, said most of the world now was in the. "golden age when man has provided more relief and freedom from suffer ing or bodily ills than ever Be fore in his history. Although many of the modern "miracle drugs" are expensive, Zugich said, they are cheap when compared with hospital expenses they eliminate. He said a pneumonia case probably would have cost a patient $400 back in 1931, whereas today un complicated cases can be treated at home for only $60. ; "We hear a lot about the ris ing costs of medical care," he said. "The truth is, the cost of a drug today is no measure of the cost of an illness." Southern California CounfiesSaid Growing 1 Los Angeles (U.R) California's 14 southern counties now have an estimated ' population of 7, 659,000 and are expected to have a total of 10,175,000 by 1965, according .to the Home Builders Institute. The adjacent counties of Los Angeles and Orange, for exam ple, will grow from their pres ent 5,2l'2,300 persons to nearly 7,000,000 in the next 11 years, the HBI said, , noting that the southern area has 62 per cent of the state's population, with 40 per cent ' of it in Los Angeles county. ; . The institute said its "guesses" were based on an expected an nual growth rate of 156,000 for the two counties, but it pointed out that the totals might be even larger as the yearly growth rate for metropolitan Los Angeles in just the last four years has been 230,000. HBI estimators said the 14 counties grew somewhat less rapidly in 1953 than in 1952 and that of approximately 275, 000 persons settling in the area last year, 200,000 chose Los An geles county and 30,000 Orange county. . Percentage-wise, San Diego county has shown the greatest growth in the period from 1940, while Orange county has topped the annual list since 1950. The first successful "oil min ing" in the Western hemisphere was in Ventura county, Calif in the 1860s, when tunnels driv en into Sulphur mountain pen etrated oil sands. ' . V Doctor Found Dead By Body of Patient Atlanta U.R) A; physician found dying beside the body of a woman patient with whom he had been romantically" linked was the victim of a stroke, an autopsy report showed today. The autopsy on the body of Dr. Paul D. Vella, 40, widely known gland specialist, disprov ed the early theory of detectives that he had entered into a sui cide pact with his attractive pa tient, police said An autopsy was planned for Mrs. Avon Bonner, 34, whom Vella was visiting when he died of a brain hemorrhage, police said. Detectives found several empty" bottles of powerful seda tives in the room. The couple' was found yester day morning by Vella's wife, the former Thelma B. Blomstrom of New York, when she investigat ed her husband's failure to re turn from an early call to Mrs. Bonner's home. Mrs. Vella told police that she broke into the house and found the woman's body and her un conscious husband sprawled across the bed, both fully cloth ed. Vella never regained consciousness. HAMMER TIP v Portland, Me. U.R) Everett Goddard hasn't built a better mousetrap, but he thinks the world should beat a path to his door because of this startling discovery: "If you don't want to hit your thumb with a hammer, nola the hammer in both hands." Harney County Rancher Cattleman of Year Prineville (U.R) " Oregon's 1954 "Cattleman of the Year" is Lloyd Hill of Harney county. Hill was awarded the Herman Oliver trophy for winning the title at the annual dinner spon sored by the Oregon Cattlemen's association here last night. Ralph Br eese of Prineville placed second in the contest. Columbia Basin Land Available To Veterans Saletn (U.R) Twenty-one farms will be released in the Columbia . basin with a 45-day preference to veterans inr the first release of land in that pro ject scheduled for 1955. Vere A. MeCarty, Oregon De partment of Veterans' Affairs service officer, warned today that for : preference, : veterans must file their applications with the Bureau of -Reclamation at Ephrata, Wash., before 2 p.m. next Jan. 31. The farms are located in the country adjacent to the town of Othello, Wash., 130 miles south west of Spokane and in the heart of the Columbia Basin rec lamation project. DELAYED ACTION St. Joseph, Mich. JftJ.R) Mrs. Jennett Kerr told police . she didn't report theft of her wrist watch for three months because she thought maybe an "honest person" would return it. Dworshak Says Budget Should Be Balanced Washington U.R) Sen. Henry C. Dworshak (R- Ida.), said today that the Eisenhower administration can have "no leg itimate reason" for failure to balance next year's budget. ' Dworshak, a member of the Senate Appropriations .commit tee, commented on administra tion predictions of a deficit in the budget to be submitted to Congress next month. He said the United States is not engaged "in either a cold or a hot war rightf now" and call ed for a "retrenchment in fed eral spending" to balance the 1956 budget. "If we can't bal ance it now we can never bal ance it," Dworshak said. Annexation To Eugene Defeated by Bethel Eugene U.R) Proposed an nexation to the city of Eugene was turned down, 723 to 620, yesterday by . the Bethel Water District. : Bethel, an area of three square miles containing some 4,000 persons, lies just north west of Eugene. The district previously had defeated a proposal to incorpor ate as a separate city and had voted down an earlier annexa tion measure. If the Bethel district ' had voted to go into the city of Eu gene, v the Lane county seat would have gone above the 50, 000 figure in population. : Proposed Increase For Physician Fees In Welfare Cases Portland (U.R) A yearly in crease of some $120,000 was suggested today in a proposed new medical fee schedule for physicians' care of welfare re cipients.- ; The new schedule,1 devised by represeetatives of the Ore gon Medical Association,- was presented to the State Public Welfare Commission here. It would replace a schedule drawn in 1937. The schedule was referred to a special committee of the com mission for further study and will be presented for official approval during . the January meeting of he commission. The new schedule would pro vide payments of two-thirds of the Oregon Physicians Service scheduled in fees up to $50 and 50 per cent of the OBS fees for those more than $50. It provided that there be no fee over $150. Medical association represen tatives said the new schedule was drawn' on a "realistic cost basis." They said that a phy sician actually is "losing money out of his pocket" under the present schedule, . and - that ex penses have greatly increased since 1937. Lady-bird beetles kill and eat various soft-bodies insects. Mrs. Luce To Discuss Problems of Italy New York (U.R) Clare Boothe Luce, American ambassa dor to Italy, arrived . by plane today from Rome to discuss the "serious and deep rooted," Ital ian economic problem in Wash ington with President Eisenhow er and Secretary ef State John Foster Dulles. Mrs. Luce, accompanied ' by her husband, publisher Henry Luce, said she would spend "a few brief days of vacation" in New York before "going to the Capital. - , . Mrs. Luce said that although economic conditions in Italy were pernaps lar more serious , than in any country in Europe" - tremendous political strides hadt been made in the last year. Nixon Not Available For Bend Convention . Washington U.R) The ' annual state convention of the Oregon Junior Chamber of Com-. merce at : Bend probably will have to get along without Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Chamber Prexy Keith Shep- ard of Bend invited Nixon to address the convention." But the Vice-President's office , said today that he rarely ac-; cepts speaking engagements during a session of Congress and that when he does he limits them to areas close lo Washing-, ton. ' . GM-!?- V V or sr II.- i. - " w v mm mm m l I . .1 Orders . HUNDREDS MORE UNADVERTISED ITEMS ... CUT TO THE BONE ... HURRY DOWN AND SEE THEM! ON SALE THURSDAY MORNING We're getting, ready for inventory - - - Sensational storewide savings! Goodbye to all odds and ends and soiled merchandise . . All drastically slashed for quick selling ... Doors open at 9:30 . . . Extra help to serve you ... 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